A flight instructor and student narrowly avoided tragedy when engine trouble forced them to make a desperate emergency landing on a busy highway. We are not making the airport, we’re going down on I-10,” the pilot warned air traffic control as the situation deteriorated. Trucker Eric Jordan captured video of the near-miss as the aircraft descended over his cab. “If I wouldn’t have seen that shadow over my truck and slowed down, he would have been in the side of the cab. “Everyone was safe—he was a really good pilot, he was a good instructor, it was a miracle that he landed the thing with no problem,” Jordan added.